If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent... (Job 22:23 CSB) This third cycle of speeches from Job’s friends starts the same way, as Eliphaz tells Job he needs to repent and then will be restored. While true if Job sinned,...
Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful? (Job 21:7 CSB) Not only do bad things happen to good people, but good things happen to bad people. Job’s defense to his friends was that they could not throw out a blanket statement and attach prosperity to godliness...
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply (Job 20:3 CSB). Zophar couldn’t accept from Job that it was possible that he could be wrong and was more concerned about his reputation than he was about getting to the truth. He set his “flag in...
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the nd he will stand on the dust (Job 19:25 CSB). In the midst of suffering and confusion, Job declares the bottom line to his existence. Job knew of his Redeemer: Jesus, yet to come! Re-read this verse, commit it to...
Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man, and this is the place of the one who does not know God (Job 18:21 CSB). Bildad judges Job and falsely accuses him of not even knowing God, saying that if he did, then he wouldn’t be in the situation he...
But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you (Job 17:10 CSB). If all we have to depend on our friends as family as our only source of wisdom, then we, as Job stated, wouldn’t have much hope, because the source...
Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights! My friends scoff at me as I weep before God. I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone would for a friend (Job 16:19-21 CSB). We cannot approach a Holy...
Listen to me and I will inform you I will describe what I have seen (Job 15:17 CSB). "Know-it-all Eliphaz" insists that he knows what he is talking about. He continues to tell Job that wicked men suffer; therefore, Job must have done something wrong. Eliphaz was certain of his...
As water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so you destroy a man’s hope (Job 14:19 CSB). In Job 13 we read that Job chose to hope in God no matter the situation, yet in this chapter we see that he is losing hope....
Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him. (Job 13:15 CSB). How many of us would choose to hope in God even in great pain and affliction? Job’s faith is great in that he still chooses to hope in God...